heroic dose
n.— «Rabe’s new hit concerned Eddie and Mickey, two pedal-to-the metal casting directors whose condo in the Hollywood hills is a kind of divorcees’ club, run on heroic doses of liquor and cocaine.» —by Richard T. Kelly Sean Penn : His Life and Times Jan. 9, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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